Thanks, although I guess it wasn’t clear, but I got that from straight up evangelicals. I was agreeing that this is a common thing in many very fundamentalist religions. But I second the thought for women to leave all of the oppressive religious nonsense behind.

Yeah, my Mom loves to praise her liberal (for a Catholic) church. I like to point out that parishes tend to be progressive in places where they’d otherwise have very few bodies in the pews. In places where they aren’t lacking for members, not so much.

Lawrence O’Donnell talked about how General Kelly’s Catholic upbringing shaped his world view regarding domestic violence. Priests told women to stay with their abusive husbands all the time. Divorce was a sin. My family sufferred tremendously from this type of ‘advice’ from the church. A lot of families did and still…

Each and every one of those names sounds like it should be employed in some fashion at strip club. Dancer, bouncer, barback, dj...

“Where you only see one mocking comment, it was then that I carried you” —moopidoo

“Sarah and Todd Palin married on August 29, 1988, and they have five children: sons Track Cj (born 1989) and Trig Paxson Van (born 2008), and daughters Bristol Sheeran Marie (born 1990), Willow Bianca Faye (born 1994), and Piper Indy Grace (born 2001).”

Some time it helps to have it said out loud to your face, you are incredible and all those bishops are just trying to win a competition that men came up with because they can’t win at being good or cool like women generally are. They may have an eternal life but it’s not gonna be what they hope. You are enjoying a…

The church also requires the young woman and woman to babysit all the kids on Sunday for four hour s so the guys can have their secret meetings, which never entails children. They also expect the woman to come up with a curriculum and snacks for these dozens of annoyed anxious children.

RIGHT??? My fucking dog can go run around and play frisbee with Jesus and Hitler and the cats can lick their ass while sitting on the Throne, but Heaven forbid (hah!) I want to not pop out a trillion kids and COOK ALL DAY. And *gasp* I expect my husband to treat me as a human being and respect me, not HIT me and TELL…

My favorite is that the worst of Hell is not reserved for the Hitlers and Pol Pots of the world; it’s just for people who used to be Mormon. While my parents console themselves by telling me a “... full knowledge of the gospel” implies some level of Mormondom I never attained, so I still qualify for the mediocre…

That’s a new one to me, but I assure you if I had stayed at that company I would have heard it.

We’re talking about a religion whose founder was shot to death by an angry mob because he was trying to add their wives and daughters to his harem, so, no big surprise there.

Yup. I got the “you need to repent” line after disclosing my rape and that was basically it for me. I am happy I am out now, but it was super psychologically damaging and painful.

The big difference is that Mormons believe that only those who hold the Melchizedek Priesthood can get to the highest level of heaven. How do you do that? Well, you are a Mormon in good standing with a dick, ta-da! You’re totally a priest! If you’re a woman - better be married and sealed in the Temple to a man who…

Years ago I worked at a company that had a large office in Salt Lake. Traveled there many times. Mormons suck.

If families do stay together in the afterlife, that’s gonna be one very tense planet Porter.

This has nothing to do with domestic violence (I hope), but I read about one woman in the Quiverful movement who had a zillion kids. She got diagnosed with breast cancer and didn’t want treatment. She’d rather die than continue living her current life because she never had any other options. Also that was probably the…

I doubt that this is specific to Mormons. I think a number of conservative religious leaders would take the same approach.

I do not understand anyone who thinks religion is a good idea, but especially women, and especially women in the more fundamentalist churches. Even if you believe in god(s), why stay in a group that thinks you’re somehow less than human *and* it’s your fault?

Ok this weird MD campaign is just bananas. But honestly, what does it really matter? This is the 3rd/4th Post about some random-ass dude on a feminist blog.